My parents never knew of all the talks we had after ‘lights out’. Now, understand, he wasn’t too worldly. He was just out of the academy and I w...as his first assignment. Oh well, we would learn together. We both looked forward to the experience. We got through kindergarten together and looked forward to first grade. When I went to school, he was alone for the first time during the day. He missed me. Of course, he couldn’t jump on me like a puppy when I got home, but I did feel a warm sense when. ”“We understand the details,” I thought out loud. “Words. Meanings. Descriptions. Always material things. The building and working a machine. A blade of grass. Even atoms and molecules. Things we can sense. See at the subatomic level. Watch work. As if the biological, the natural was just another sort of machine. Witnessing differentiation and causation in DNA. More and more understanding.“And yet can we ever understand how it all came to be? All us singular consciousnesses moving through the. " Huley?" Yes?" Can you keep a secret?" Sure, what is it?" When you were rubbing your leg against mine in the cafeteria today?" Yes?" It made me wet and my mother is going to tell you not to do it to me." Oh you, boys don't get wet. I'm going to tell mama what you said." she laughed."How about your dad? What did he say?"I thought I knew the answer. I only asked for confirmation to my presumption. Huley went berserk, warning me to not even think of telling her father something of that nature.. “I have come to drink blood and kick ass ... and I’m all out of blood!” I deliberately paraphrased John Nada’s line from They Live as I unloaded directly at Walder himself, “but yours will do.”That last little bit was a pithy remark I felt suitable to the occasion, of course. Walder Frey didn’t have much time to consider it, as he slumped in his chair, the buckshot ripping his aged torso badly apart. The horror on the faces of each of the men and women of the court was truly a wonder to behold,.